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Naisula in Samburu National Reserve earlier this year © Meha Kumar/Save the Elephants In December 2023, Naisula, the tracked matriarch of the Samburu Ladies, led her herd...
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Naisula in Samburu National Reserve earlier this year © Meha Kumar/Save the Elephants In December 2023, Naisula, the tracked matriarch of the Samburu Ladies, led her herd...
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The tuskless male elephant from the Hawaiian Islands family in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. © Olympia Brule/Save the Elephants Save the Elephants (STE) researchers...
How to survey wildlife from the air In June, myself and Save the Elephants’ aviation co-ordinator, Paul Kokiro, flew the organisation’s Cessna 206 aircraft for ten days in support of the Kenyan government’s national wildlife census –...
Lomami National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to a population of just over 700 forest elephants.In 1970, the Democratic Republic of Congo was home to nearly 300,000 forest elephants. Today there are perhaps fewer than 10,000 ...
Understanding the magnificent, intelligent, and highly endangered forest elephantWhenever African elephants are mentioned, it is understandably the savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) that receives all the headlines. Ask any child in the world...
Young people have the power to change the future of our planet. It is therefore imperative that they understand how changes in Mother Nature affect their current and future livelihoods. Save the Elephants’ (STE) education program endeavors to...
In Samburu, northern Kenya, menstruation amongst adolescent girls is an expensive affair which many cannot afford. Lack of money for sanitary towels means that some girls still resort to unhygienic and ineffective cultural practices. During their...
A young orphaned elephant who survived the horror of her mother being killed by poachers and eventually gave birth to two calves of her own, has tragically been found dead in northern Kenya. Shafaa (aged 21) was one of eight elephants reported to...
Alongside other wildlife organizations, our Elephant Crisis Fund is a proud recipient of funds from the Tiffany 'Save The Wild' collection, which has now raised more than US$10 million. Congratulations to Tiffany & Co. on this amazing...
The idea of using satellites to count elephants has hit the news again. Unfortunately simple barriers - trees and clouds - stand in the way of getting accurate estimates of elephant numbers from space. Counting elephants and other large animals...
There's an African proverb that goes...' when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers'. In May 2002, it was more than the grass that suffered after a bull named Rommel redirected his aggression towards one of our research vehicles in...
SHARE YOUR LOVE OF ELEPHANTS THIS GIVING SEASON WITH GIFTS THAT GIVE BACK TO NATURE The holiday season is fast approaching! If you haven’t figured out what to give your loved ones yet, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Ivory Ella For...